Re: Questions about ESTAE(X)

2013-08-27 Thread Shriver, Gregory A
SDWACLUP is a one way communication from RTM to the recovery routines. It notifies them that this is an abend from which no retry is possible. This behavior is documented fairly well as others have indicated. Another possible resource that helped me was to sit down with a cup o joe and

Re: IBM vs. Amazon for Cloud

2013-07-21 Thread Shriver, Gregory A
Very interesting article. About a year ago I read that Amazon's profit margins on AWS were north of 40% as compared to 2% for their etailing biz. If you were Amazon,which portion of the business would be most aggresively trying to grow? Anyone who does not think that Amazon is a major IT